Imagine being told that your feelings aren't valid, your pain isn't legitimate

Ecsqueeze me but The Legendary Journey's is special and can do no wrong.

Well it's not like Boblol was exactly suggesting Brett Ratner would get following a crappy trend right.

Well, of course it is. Nothing like a dead wife and kids to get a hero's Angst Points up! Also, I cannot believe it is 20-bleedin'-14* and we are still killing off female characters (children optional) to prove how dark our hero's past is and how troubled and wracked with manpain he is as a result.

and/or cheesiness

I thought Hercules was just the Roman name for Heracles? Didn't they just go Oh, these gods are good. better than the ones we've got. "Cause the Roman gods before that were kind of crap, you know – Jeff, the god of biscuits. And Simon, the god of hairdos. And uh, you know, they had the god of war, the god of thunder,…

Yeah, like, at the end he basically pushes a 10-story building over with his muscles and then McShane is immediately like, "Is he REALLY a demigod!!?!?!? WE MAY NEVER KNOW." Are you sure? Are you sure we don't know?

I'm a little put off that Doll writes, "despite the proliferation of "cohabitation, same-sex marriage, and women who ably bring home the bacon," because what among those things prevents using wife/husband as terms? My gay married friends are husbands, my lesbian married friends are wives, and I bring home the bacon…

No.

I think it's worth thinking more about why it makes you uncomfortable.

As opposed to the "golden era" of the 1950's when they announced engagements in yearbooks?

If it's their senior year and they're graduating it seems like a pretty big achievement, don't you think?

I'm guessing none of the parents actually read the text on the pages. Just having read the first few sentences, it pretty clearly "convey[s] the reality of what they are going through."

But pro-life parents, isn't this what you wanted?

Good for the school for being progressive and inclusive. Shame on the parents for getting pissed. I had a friend who was excluded from her senior year book (and not allowed to cross the stage) because she was pregnant. It still upsets her. She got pregnant, made the choice to have the baby and was punished for it.

Making teen parents look human? Why, I never! [clutches pearls, puckers mouth up like a cat's butthole]

I think it's an accomplishment to stay in school as a teen parent and graduate.

Beautiful. Triumphant. "STAAAAAAAANNNNNNDING TALLLLLLLLLL!"

I think we could all use a hedgehog in an egg cup.

I loved how much of this book was just people dying in gruesome ways in the Outback.